A few days ago, Apple released the results for its 2024 fiscal second quarter (which ran from December 31, 2023, to March 30, 2024) and held a call with analysts to discuss the results. Unlike Apple’s Q1 which contains all of the holiday sales, Apple’s Q2 is usually not a particularly interesting quarter. Two years ago, Apple set a new Q2 record of $97.3 billion. Last year, earnings in this quarter were $94.8 billion. This year, earnings were $90.8 billion. However, if you look at multiple quarters over the last few years—which is easy to do using the graphs prepared by Jason Snell of Six Colors—the big picture is that Apple revenue rose in late 2020 into 2021 as people upgraded equipment during the pandemic, then Apple reached a new higher-than-even plateau in 2022 that has stayed roughly even since then, without dropping back down to the early 2020 and earlier levels. Suffice it to say that Apple’s revenue is just fine. If you want to get all of the nitty-gritty details, you can download the audio from the conference call from iTunes, or you can read a transcript of the call prepared by Jason Snell of Six Colors. Apple’s official press release is here. Here are the items that stood out to me.

iPhone

• iPhone revenue for the quarter was just shy of $46 billion, lower than the record $51.3 billion this time last year. Apple explained that the results one year ago were particularly high (about $5 billion higher than normal) because of pent-up demand from the prior quarter (the 2022 holiday season) when there were COVID-related supply disruptions for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Apple says that if you ignore that bump from a year ago, the total company revenue would have grown from 2023 Q2 to 2024 Q2.
• Apple CFO Luca Maestri said that the “iPhone active install base grew to a new all-time high in total and in every geographic segment, and during the March quarter, we saw many iPhone models as the top-selling smartphones around the world.”

iPad

• iPad revenue for the quarter was $5.6 billion, lower than the $6.7 billion in 2023 Q2, $7.6 billion in 2022 Q2, and $7.8 billion in 2021 Q2. Of course, one might argue that it is amazing that there was significant iPad revenue at all in 2023 since no iPads were announced last year. I’ll be interested in learning what iPad revenue is in 2024 Q3 and Q4 in light of the new iPads being announced tomorrow.
• Over half of iPads sales were to people who had not previously owned an iPad.

Other

• Cook said that there has been great enthusiasm for the Apple Vision Pro, and he noted that more than half of the Fortune 100 companies have bought units and are “exploring innovative ways to use it to do things that weren’t possible before, and this is just the beginning.” As expected for a brand new device of this nature, there is not one single thing that people are doing, and instead people are kicking the tires on all sorts of ideas. Cook said: “People are using it for many different things in the enterprise, and that varies from field service, to training, to health care related things like preparing a doctor for pre-op surgery or advanced imaging, control centers, and so it’s an enormous number of different verticals, and our focus is on growing that ecosystem and getting more apps and more and more enterprises engaged, and the event that we had recently, I can’t overstate the enthusiasm in the room. It was extraordinary, and so we’re off to a good start, I think, with enterprise.”
• Here is some anecdotal data on Apple Vision pro adoption. I work for a large law firm of around 300 attorneys, and to my knowledge, I am the only one in my law firm with an Apple Vision Pro. Also, a week ago, I gave a presentation at a large technology conference sponsored by the Virginia State Bar Association—so that was an audience with a special interest in technology—and of the attorneys in my session, I was the only one who had purchased an Apple Vision Pro. Don’t get me wrong: if anyone asks me, I actually tell them not to buy an Apple Vision Pro because it is still such early days. On the other hand, if they ask me if I enjoy using my Apple Vision Pro, my answer is a very enthusiastic yes, and it is going to be so amazing when this type of advanced technology becomes more common.
• Cook acknowledged the fact that Apple will have a product announcement on May 7, saying that “we’re getting ready for an exciting product announcement next week that we think our customers will love,” and he also mentioned the upcoming WWDC conference in June.
• Once again, Cook emphasized that AI will play an important role in Apple’s future. “We continue to feel very bullish about our opportunity in generative AI. We are making significant investments, and we’re looking forward to sharing some very exciting things with our customers soon. We believe in the transformative power and promise of AI, and we believe we have advantages that will differentiate us in this new era, including Apple’s unique combination of seamless hardware, software, and services integration, groundbreaking Apple Silicon with our industry-leading neural engines, and our unwavering focus on privacy, which underpins everything we create.”
• There is a lot that makes up the services category for Apple. It includes Apple TV+, the App Store, the money that Apple makes from Google to use Google as the default search engine in Safari, and much more. But this is a killer category for Apple. For example, in this past quarter, Apple services revenue was an all-time high of $23.9 billion. Better yet, Cook said that about 75% of that was profit. 
• Speaking of Apple TV+, Cook announced that the compay would launch a movie called “Wolves” later this year “which reunites George Clooney and Brad Pitt.”
• Masestri said that almost two-thirds of Apple Watch sales in the past quarter were to people buying their first Apple Watch. This is consistent with what I am seeing: I’m amazed to see so many people around me in different parts of my life wearing an Apple Watch.

With new iPads expected to be announced on Tuesday, Brett Burney and I begin this episode of the In the News podcast by speculating on what might be coming. Is it possible that Apple will surprise us all by using an M4 processor, or is that just silly? We also talk about some big Apple problems this week that we don’t really understand yet: alarms not working on some iPhones which is causing people to oversleep, and a small number of people, including Brett, being asked to reset their Apple ID even when they are away from home and thus it is more difficult to do this. We also discuss transcription of podcasts and audio that you record, default passwords on routers and other technology in your home, how the Apple Watch can save your life with AFib notifications, and much more.

In our In the Know segment, Brett and I share tips that work in two apps from Readdle, PDF Expert and Documents. Brett discusses offline sync, and I discuss customizing your toolbar.

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In just a few days on May 7, Apple will stream an Apple Event during which I expect to see new iPads announced. What new features will Apple include in the new iPads being announced next week? Dan Moren of Six Colors has some ideas, which he shares in this article for Macworld. There is also a rumor that the new iPad Pro will use not the latest M3 chip but the M4 chip. Jason Cross of Macworld explains why that rumor might not be so crazy after all. For example, if Apple has access to M4 processors but only in a limited supply, a high-end product like the iPad Pro that doesn’t sell in huge quantities like some other Apple products might be a perfect place to debut this new chip. I’m incredibly excited to see what Apple will show us. And now, the news of note from the past week:

• Ryan Christoffel of 9to5Mac explains why the new transcripts feature in Apple Podcasts is handy.
• Zac Hall of 9to5Mac reviews the HoverBar Duo from TwelveSouth, an adjustable iPad mount that can also be used with an iPhone for a FaceTime call. It is available on Amazon for $79.99.
• We have all heard stories about how the AFib feature on the Apple Watch can be life-saving. William Gallagher of AppleInsider reports that the FDA has now “approved the Apple Watch’s atrial fibrillation history feature under its stringent Medical Device Development Tools program that specifies what devices health professionals can rely on.”
• For example, Gallagher also shares the tale of a woman who produces videos for Peloton who explains that an Apple Watch saved her life by alerting her that she may have AFib.
• A number of iPhone owners across the country have been finding the alarm function on their iPhones did not work, causing some people to miss work. Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica notes that Apple is aware of the problem.
• As reported by Michael Simon of Macworld, you can now get the beautiful Apple Studio Display 5K monitor from Amazon for only $1,299.97, an all-time low and a $300 savings. I use this monitor with my Mac mini and it looks great, has great speakers, and has lots of other features. You can also use it as an external display for an iPad.
• Christian Zibreg of iDownloadBlog reports that the Documents app by Readdle can now transcribe audio and video (such as interviews, lectures, podcasts, etc.).
• Many consumer devices for the home such as routers and smart home devices come with dumb default passwords. And since many people never think to change the password, hackers can often guess the password required to undermine the security of devices in your home. Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac reports that new cybersecurity laws in the UK and EU will ban the use of dumb default passwords in these devices.
• For all of the initial computers that I used in the early 1980s—my Sinclair ZX81, the Apple ][ computers that I used at school, and my second home computer, the Commodore 64—I programmed in BASIC. Benj Edwards of Ars Technica reports that BASIC is now 60 years old. I didn’t realize that the programming language started as far back as 1964. So I guess what I’m trying to say is: 10 PRINT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY BASIC” / 20 GOTO 10 / RUN.
• If you want to use an iPhone 15 to take 4K ProRes video, it uses a ton of storage so you will probably need to save to external storage. Julie Strietelmeir of The Gadgeteer reviews a device from Hagibis ($36.99 on Amazon) that attaches to the back of an iPhone using MagSafe and holds an M.2 2230 NVMe SSD card (which is not included). Seems like an interesting solution that doesn’t add much bulk to the iPhone.
• Two Apple TV+ shows that I enjoyed—Sow Horses and Silo—won BAFTA awards, which David Snow of Cult of Mac says is essentially the British Oscars.
• Charles Martin of Apple Insider shares tips for keeping your Apple TV’s 4K Siri remote charged and ready to go.
• And finally, it turns out that you can drop an iPhone from 300 feet, or even 16,000 feet, and it can still work. How is that possible? Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal shows you the answer in this video:

Tick tock goes the clock as the countdown begins for TikTok to either sell to a buyer in the U.S. or shut down the service in this country, and that’s the first topic that Brett and I discuss on this week’s episode of the In the News podcast. We also talk about what Apple might be planning for its upcoming announcement on May 7, more information about what Apple plans to do next with AI, HomeKit devices that you can use outside your house, small indoor chargers, a huge outdoor charger that top of your iPhone while also chilling your cocktail, using an Apple Vision Pro to conduct surgery, and more.

In our Where Y’At? segment, we discuss using an AirTag to chase down a car thief.

In our In the Know segment, Brett shares a fantastic tip about how you can use Keynote to work with images. I talk about how you can use your iPhone with a red tint at night so that it doesn’t destroy your night vision.

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Yesterday, I took a vacation from work, and my wife and I attended the first day of Jazz Fest in New Orleans. This is a two-weekend festival that is at the end of April and beginning of May every year. If you haven’t been before, it gets my highest recommendation. There are over a dozen stages, so at any one time, there is always lots of good music to hear. Yesterday, I listened to some great Blues music and a little bit of Gospel, some swamp rock and roll, a great brass band, the legendary Dixie Chicks who celebrated 60 years of singing “Chapel of Love,” Zydeco music from Rockin’ Dopsie, and then a little band you may have heard of called the Beach Boys. It was an eclectic mix of music and I loved it all. Upcoming artists this year include The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Jon Batiste, Vampire Weekend, Chris Stapleton, and many more. If you cannot be here in person, you can also stream some of the music live or after the fact on WWOZ. (For example, use this link and then jump to the 50:10 point to hear John Boutte playing yesterday his toe-tapping crowd favorite: At the Foot of Canal Street.) We also had some amazing food throughout the day including beignets (both sweet with powdered sugar and savory with crawfish), a turduckin po-boy, cochon de lait, soft shell crab, catfish, meat pies, crawfish enchiladas, the always refreshing Mango Freeze, and more. If you hear “festival food” and think corn dogs, this is the opposite of that, some of the best dishes that New Orleans has to offer. If you enjoy music, food, art, and having fun, this is my annual PSA that you owe it to yourself to attend Jazz Fest in New Orleans one of these years. And now, the news of note from the past week:

• A podcast update: Brett Burney and I cannot record this week’s edition of the In the News podcast on Friday morning because of Brett’s travel schedule, so we will instead record on Saturday morning. Absent any hiccups, you should see the episode in your podcast player and the video on YouTube on Saturday afternoon.
• The ultimate App Store rejection is the one that occurs when Congress passes a law, signed by the President, that essentially bans your app, and that is what happened to TikTok this week, as reported by Cristiano Lima-Strong of the Washington Post.
• Some, such as John Gruber of Daring Fireball, have been arguing in favor of a ban for a long time. Others think that the new law is xenophobic, unconstitutional, and/or wrong. I’m not sure where I come out. It’s quite complicated, and there are interesting arguments on both sides.
• As I noted early this week, Apple will announce new iPads on May 7. Jovana Naumovski of Gadget Hacks has some ideas of what may be in the third-generation Apple Pencil, such as the ability to squeeze the Pencil to add a shape, signature, sticker, or text box.
• After May 7, the next big set of announcements from Apple will come during the Keynote presentation at its WWDC developer conference on June 10. It seems certain that AI will be a part of that presentation. In the meantime, some of the AI researchers at Apple have been publishing academic papers on these topics. For example, Malcolm Owen of AppleInsider reports on new ways that Apple researchers have come up with to improve the accuracy and reliability of AI using large language models. The details of these advancements are way over my head, but it is good to see folks at Apple making progress.
• Jason Snell of Six Colors thinks that when Apple announces new AI features, it will be a reason to upgrade your iPhone and other devices because you will need to have even more RAM to run the AI on-device.
• Here is another story about a person recovering their stolen vehicle thanks to an AirTag. But this one is a little more dramatic because dashcam videos allow you to see much of the story, not just read about it. Mekahlo Medina of the NBC affiliate in Las Angeles has the story, and I recommend that you watch the video.
• The crew at MacStories is back to make HomeKit recommendations, this time for devices that are outside of your home. It’s a great set of recommendations.
• For outdoor lighting, I’m a huge fan of the Meross Smart Dimmer plug, which you can get on Amazon for less than $25. Here is my review from 2022, and it has continued to work great for me since then.
• Rikka Altland of 9ti5Toys reviews some new stands from Satechi that feature Qi2 for faster 15W charging of an iPhone and also charge either one or two other devices. And of course, the stands work with Apple’s Standby Mode, which I love and use every day and every night, as I discussed in this post. I myself continue to be super happy with the the Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe (now only $129.99 on Amazon), which I use at work and when I travel, and the Twelve South HiRise 3 Deluxe ($149.99 on Amazon), which I use next to my bed.
• There are portable batteries, and then there are portable power stations. Eric Slivka of MacRumors reports on products in development by Bluetti including a portable cooler that looks like a regular ice chest but which works as a refrigerator for up to three days. It even works as a portable ice maker. And oh yeah, you can also use it to charge your iPhone.
• Filipe Espósito of 9to5Mac reports that a doctor in Brazil used his Apple Vision Pro to assist during a shoulder arthroscopy surgery. I guess if you are doing a surgery that uses a tiny camera, you might as well display it on a Vision Pro screen. There is also a YouTube video that lets you see what the doctor saw during surgery.
• Before I used the iPhone, I was a big fan of Palm OS devices for a decade. My first was the Palm III in 1998 and my last one was the Palm Treo 650, which I used until I purchased an iPhone in 2008. Cameron Kaiser of Ars Technica wrote a great retrospective on all of the devices that ran Palm OS. I enjoyed the walk down memory lane.
• And finally, I’ve embedded below the trailer for Season 4 of the Apple TV+ show called Trying. I’m mentioning it today because this is one of those shows that hasn’t gotten a lot of buzz but it is really good: both heartwarming and funny. The show is about a couple in England who are trying to adopt, and since the show is now about to start its fourth season, you can probably guess that the adoption story has a happy ending. But the series also explores the grief that typically goes along with the adoption process. The series especially hit home for me since my wife and I went through this process, and we also know so many others who have gone through the adoption process. But anyone who is a parent will find lots of humor in this series that hits close to home. If you haven’t started this one yet, go back to Season 1 and see what you think. I think you’ll like it. And if you have been watching, Season 4 starts on May 22:

Yesterday, Apple revealed that new iPads will be released on May 7, 2024. No, if you want to be technical about it, Apple did not actually use the word “iPad” when it said that it would have an announcement in two weeks on May 7. But it is clear that is what is coming.

First, Apple did not release any new iPads at all in 2023, so we are certainly due for a new iPad. The iPad Pro was last updated on October 18, 2022, and it was a minor update: a speed bump by going from the M1 to the M2 processor and a new hover feature for the Apple Pencil. There was a more substantial update to the entry-level iPad that same day. The iPad Air was last updated on March 8, 2022, a substantial update that brought many of the best features of the iPad Pro to the iPad Air.

Second, the main graphic associated with the event shows what is clearly a hand holding an Apple Pencil—a stylus that only works with iPads.

(If you were a high school debater like I was, you will especially appreciate the animated version of this graphic with the hand spinning the stylus.)

Those are not enough tea leaves for you? OK, how about this third one. On the service formerly known as Twitter, Tim Cook said yesterday: “Pencil us in for May 7! ✏️”

So new iPads are coming in two weeks. What will we see? The rumor is that we will see a new iPad Pro and iPad Air, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see the entire iPad line updated. It will be interesting to see whether the iPad mini also sees an update; it hasn’t been updated since 2021, and some folks believe that Apple may be done with that size of the iPad.

It also seems like it is time for a new version of the Apple Pencil. The original Apple Pencil was released in 2015 (replaced by a USB-C version in 2023) and the second generation came out in 2018. With the Pencil right there in the graphic, it makes you think that we could soon see a third generation.

One thing that surprised me about this announcement is the time: 7am Pacific. Apple usually does these at 10am Pacific. It makes me wonder if there will be some sort of live event in New York, where the event starts at 10am. We’ll see.

If you have been thinking about getting a new iPad, now is the time to wait to see what Apple announces in two weeks. If you are very happy with your current iPad—which describes me, because I still love the iPad Pro 12.9" (fifth generation) that I purchased three years ago in 2021—the question will be whether Apple has enough new features that even happy iPad users feel compelled to upgrade.

If you had “Apple allows emulator apps in the App Store” on your Bingo card for this month, then you have a better Bingo card supplier than I do. That announcement caught both me and Brett by surprise, so we start this week’s episode of the podcast by discussing what you can do with these apps and what this new announcement means for Apple and the App Store in general. We then talk about larger companies (such as big law firms) using Apple devices, an early precursor to Google Maps and Apple Maps, some great shows that are now on Apple TV+ or coming soon, and much more.

In our Where Y’at? segment, we discuss two recent stories in which Apple’s crash detection technology was used to alert authorities to accidents: one tragic, the other with a happier ending.

In our In the Know segment, we recommend some oldies but goodies as Brett discusses the Compass app and I discuss the Level function in the Measure app.

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Well this was unexpected. As John Gruber of Daring Fireball reports, Apple changed the App Store rules to allow apps that can emulate classic gaming devices. As a result, a free app by Riley Testut called Delta that emulates an NES, SNES, N64, Nintendo DS, Game Boy, and Game Boy Advance and that has been in development for years but used to require work-arounds to get it on an iPhone, is now on the App Store and in the #1 spot. Not the #1 games spot; the #1 overall spot. There are a lot of legal questions surrounding these emulators because people typically use them with ROM files that they find on the Internet without paying for them, but of course, sometimes the developer has been gone for decades. And although using an emulator is at least at the edge of legality, Dan Moren of Six Colors notes, ironically, that Apple is probably allowing these apps because of the fear of more government regulation. If you still own your old game cartridge, there are sometimes ways to create a backup of the cartridge and then load that in Delta, and John Voorhees of MacStories explains how to do that for Game Boy games. Federicco Viticci of MacStories noted on Mastodon that he just continued playing on his iPhone a saved game from 21 years ago. That’s a long snack break before returning to your game. I’ve tried out some of these emulators in the past, and it can be fun to relive an experience from decades ago even though the sophistication of the old games pale in comparison to modern games. I have fond memories of playing Atari 2600 games late into the night with my friends in the early 1980s, and almost 13 years ago, I had great fun playing a few of them again in a device called the iCade, which turned an iPad into an arcade game. It’s nice to know that we will be seeing more like this on the iPhone and iPad in the future. And now, the other news of note from the past week:

• How is Apple doing in large businesses and other large organizations? Jason Snell of Six Colors takes the pulse every year, and the 2024 version of Apple in the Enterprise is now out. In addition to overall scores, he also shares brief comments from lots of different folks, including a few from me.
• I mentioned this in passing yesterday, but Microsoft announced this week that its popular OneNote software is now available for the Apple Vision Pro.
• I love to use the Glif and its hand grip to keep my iPhone steady in my hand when I record video. Unfortunately, the Glif has been back-ordered for months. Malcolm Ower of AppleInsider reports that Rode released two hardware accessories to improve smartphone photography, and if you want to step it up a notch, they look great.
• If you enjoy having maps on a screen in your car via CarPlay, you might be interested in this great story about the first company to offer a similar product: the Etak device that was available in the 1980s. It’s a fascinating article.
• There is a tragic story by David Willimas of The New Zealand Herald about two teenage girls who were killed while off-roading when their vehicle went down a steep bank. But the article reports that the crash detection feature on the iPhone was the reason that police could locate the crash site.
• In happier news, Ben Crust of the New York Post shares the tale of a man who was riding home on his bike when he hit a water-filled pothole and took a horrible fall. When he came to, his watch had already called 911, so an emergency worker was already talking to him to send help. He credits his Apple Watch with saving his life.
• The team behind MacStories recommends their favorite indoor gadgets that work with HomeKit. It’s a good article, but it omits what I consider the best of these products, although you pay a little more for the quality: Lutron light switches.
• Megan Wollerton of Wirecutter has other good recommendations for using smart lighting in the kitchen.
• One of my all-time favorite Apple TV+ shows is For All Mankind, so I’m so excited to see the report by Joe Otterson in Variety that it has been renewed for a fifth season. In addition, the article reports that there will be a spin-off series focusing on the Soviet space program called Star City. I can’t wait!
• And finally, my wife and I have been enjoying watching Palm Royale on Apple TV+. Here is a short behind-the-scenes featurette that doesn’t contain much in the way of spoilers but shows off how the show captures the glamour of Pam Beach in 1969.

If you work for a law firm or other corporate environment that uses Microsoft software for Mobile Device Management, then I suspect that you use the Microsoft Authenticator app for two-factor authentication and Microsoft Intune MDM on your iPhone to provide a secure connection to your firm resources. The current lack of this support for the Apple Vision Pro limits how much real work you can do with an Apple Vision Pro: you don’t have full support for email, you can receive text messages but you see phone numbers instead of sender names (because that is a part of the Contacts app, which you likely sync with Microsoft Exchange), etc. Thus, I look forward to Microsoft updating this software to support the Apple Vision Pro.

Yesterday, I was reading an announcement from Microsoft that OneNote is now available for the Apple Vision Pro. That’s great news because I know a lot of attorneys who love that product. For now, however, Microsoft says that the app “only supports personal accounts and work accounts that are not managed by your organization.” That makes sense because you need the software I just mentioned to use a work account managed by an organization. But it also limits the usefulness of OneNote because so many people use it for work.

Fortunately, Microsoft also says in the same announcement that it is working on bringing Microsoft Authenticator to the Apple Vision Pro for two-factor authentication. The full statement is: “Microsoft Authenticator is not currently available for the Apple Vision Pro. We’re working on it, though, so check back for updates soon.” That’s good to hear.

I still have yet to see an official Microsoft announcement about Intune support for the Apple Vision Pro, but surely Microsoft is working on this. Hopefully, Microsoft will say something about this soon.

[UPDATE: On November 20, 2024, Microsoft announced: “Microsoft plans to introduce mobile device management (MDM) for visionOS and tvOS early next year. This will mark an important step in ensuring that devices that run these systems can be seamlessly managed within Intune. By extending this approach to Apple’s specialty devices, Intune helps ensure your workers—wherever they are—have the tools they need to stay productive and secure, all from a single, unified platform.”]

[UPDATE 3/3/2026: It is very frustrating that Microsoft Intune still does not support the Apple Vision Pro. A post dated 12/31/2025 on the Microsoft Intune Blog amends the prior statement that Intune for Vision Pro would be available in 2025 to say that Microsoft no longer knows when it will be available: “We understand how important seamless access to Microsoft 365 apps is in an enterprise environment, especially as teams explore new device types like Apple Vision Pro. We are actively working to expand support across Apple platforms which includes support for visionOS, though we don’t have any timelines to share at this moment in time. We would recommend keeping an eye on the public Microsoft 365 roadmap for updates as new capabilities are announced.”]

I loved recording this week’s episode of the In the News podcast, and I highly encourage you to check it out. In fact, you should consider watching at least the first few minutes on YouTube so that you can see the fantastic pictures and video of the eclipse that we discuss in our first segment. We also talk about the Apple Vision Pro and the brutal reviews of the Humane AI pin along with the fact that there are some interesting ideas in there. We then discuss security threats for the iPhone: the incentive for hackers to come up with ways to make you unsafe, and Apple’s recent alert telling some specific users that they had been the target of a sophisticated hacker campaign. Yikes.

In light of those last few stories, our tips of the week are focused on security. I explain Lockdown Mode and who should use it, Brett discusses locking down your iPhone screen, and as a bonus tip we discuss Apple’s safety check feature.

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